Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?

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laurie00 said:
I really really really wish I hadn't made the transfer until I had to in 2023. Warning to anyone who hasn't done it yet.
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they're accelerating the conversion if I'm not mistaken. users won't be able to hold out much longer. I agree with your sentiment thought, management should have waited until January, generally a slower time compared to the last 2 months of the year. it wasn't well thought through, the Tradesy acquisition is between two private companies, it's not like they had to get sales on to their book by end of year. Migration was an utter failure with no one in charge and no extensive testing carried out beforehand
 
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#11,882
Michelle1x said:
To add insult to injury, it looks like VC doesn't do any keyword search with google so you can't use google to search for specific items in Google shopping - which works with EVERY commerce site ebay, Etsy posh etc.
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check your migrated items but I don't think that you'll find your closet items were properly classified like they were on Tradesy. the model name fell off from the designer brand. your Gucci bag is now just a Gucci generic leather item on VC, not Gucci GG Marmont like it was on Tradesy, hence why you can't see it on Google search results.

however, if you start a new listing from scratch on VC, you'll be able to classify it properly.
 
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jmc3007 said:
they're accelerating the conversion if I'm not mistaken. users won't be able to hold out much longer. I agree with your sentiment thought, management should have waited until January, generally a slower time compared to the last 2 months of the year. it wasn't well thought through, the Tradesy acquisition is between two private companies, it's not like they had to get sales on to their book by end of year. Migration was an utter failure with no one in charge and no extensive testing carried out beforehand
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I got an email from Tradesy that says Tradesy is going away November 9.
 
#11,884
Michelle1x said:
As far as moving things - it APPEARS that Tradesy has turned the closets back on for those that transferred items. This just happened today, I could not see my closet yesterday, it took me right to VC. TODAY, my closet is back so I can see my listings and when I click on the item, it takes me to VC.
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I asked them not to move my listings to VC, as I already have all my listings there, and I have different prices for some items. so now they just removed most of my Tradesy listings (and will remove the rest soon I guess), and Tradesy buyers just don't see me on VC. even though Dylan from their business program earlier promised me that all the listings would be available till the beginning of 2023.

maybe somebody knows some good new places where to sell? VC is useless, Tradesy is over, ebay is full of scammers, only poshmark still works for me:(
 
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jmc3007 said:
check your migrated items but I don't think that you'll find your closet items were properly classified like they were on Tradesy. the model name fell off from the designer brand. your Gucci bag is now just a Gucci generic leather item on VC, not Gucci GG Marmont like it was on Tradesy, hence why you can't see it on Google search results.

however, if you start a new listing from scratch on VC, you'll be able to classify it properly.
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that's sad. maybe I did good not letting them transfer me and making myself all my VC listings.
 
#11,887
fashion_victim9 said:
VC offers is a joke! a lot of lowballes, but even when someone makes a good offer and you accept it - it means NOTHING. offers are non-binding there, and most of ppl just don't pay after their offer is accepted.
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Not only it’s non binding but VC uses your accepted offer against yourself by broadcasting to all liked tags what your lowest price is. You effectively lowball yourself with their offer algorithms.

I have a feeling that their offer button is gonna undergo some changes. Tradesy recognizes this flaw
 
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jmc3007 said:
I've turned off the offer button in my closet, prolly best thing I ever did. I do negotiate with my buyers, but just like before on Tradesy, (my experience was remarkably similar to yours), only some buyers do this, gotta be honest, the majority of the times, they paid my list prices. I do keep pricing v competitive, and my inventory did move briskly so I wasn't just listing my stuff for display only.

was anxious about going rogue with no offer button, but my instincts proved right and while my sales have slowed down during this migration transition, I achieved my targeted prices for things I sold during the past month. I've been selling on Tradesy for 6-7 years so I had customer data to back up my instincts. my focus is on primarily US buyers, couldn't careless about the European buyers unless I have a rare special item. when non American buyers attempt to negotiate with me, I always point out the obvious but little understood fact that they have to pay for import duties/customs that VC charges during check out. 99% of the time, they abandon the purchase.

I do get a strong impression that Tradesy buyers fail to convert to VC new account holders once they clicked on the links. There's reason why the VC interface didn't take off with American buyers even though VC have been around in the US just as long as Tradesy had. the sooner VC management acknowledge this vulnerability, the quicker they can address the elephant in the room and pivot accordingly.
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Thank you thank you thank you -- I didn't know there was a "no offer option". I am going to go and look for the "no offer" button because otherwise I'm not taking these ridiculous offers. I price higher on Poshmark knowing most things come thru an offer but always priced lower on Tradesy since they didn't. I didn't want to have to go in and redo all the listings (since we aren't allowed to make changes to the current listings) and make all the prices on VC the same as Poshmark prices.
 
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laurie00 said:
Thank you thank you thank you -- I didn't know there was a "no offer option". I am going to go and look for the "no offer" button because otherwise I'm not taking these ridiculous offers. I price higher on Poshmark knowing most things come thru an offer but always priced lower on Tradesy since they didn't. I didn't want to have to go in and redo all the listings (since we aren't allowed to make changes to the current listings) and make all the prices on VC the same as Poshmark prices.
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Click on My Account on desktop site (not mobile), then under For Sale tab, left column shows your inventory, the right column shows My Offer Settings with #1 Receive price offers on all items, #2 Not to receive offers, and #3 Select items to receive price offer. default setting in every closet is #1
 
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jmc3007 said:
Click on My Account on desktop site (not mobile), then under For Sale tab, left column shows your inventory, the right column shows My Offer Settings with #1 Receive price offers on all items, #2 Not to receive offers, and #3 Select items to receive price offer. default setting in every closet is #1
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this just saved the day for me
all of mine are no offer now until I finally get around to relisting all my Tradesy items at 30% higher price to account for all these lowballs
 
#11,892
jmc3007 said:
I have a feeling that their offer button is gonna undergo some changes. Tradesy recognizes this flaw
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I'm glad tradesy recognizes this flaw but honestly, VC is so primitive I think the best thing is to completely start over, or start from the Tradesy platform and trash the VC platform which is where it belongs. Today I got a 404 error when searching their "brand list" for Patagonia. What? This isn't a decade old transaction, I am looking for a brand name and the thing crashes, are you kidding me?

VC doesn't even know how to use keyword search algorithms... hello 1999 is calling. And the worst thing for me, I can't even find or update my own listings.
 
#11,893
whateve said:
I got an email from Tradesy that says Tradesy is going away November 9.
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I also got that email which was the reason I migrated all my listings, but later I realized it simply meant you cannot add NEW LISTINGS to Tradesy.

I wish I'd kept my closet on Tradesy until after the holidays. I screwed myself with VC.

Listing on Tradesy ends November 9th​
Tradesy is becoming Vestiaire Collective. All of our listings, sellers, and shoppers are moving there, and the Tradesy site will close in early 2023.
After November 9th, you can no longer create new listings on Tradesy.
Selling is ending on Tradesy – but it's even better on Vestiaire Collective. Move your listings to Vestiaire Collective to keep selling.
 
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fashion_victim9 said:
I asked them not to move my listings to VC, as I already have all my listings there, and I have different prices for some items. so now they just removed most of my Tradesy listings (and will remove the rest soon I guess), and Tradesy buyers just don't see me on VC. even though Dylan from their business program earlier promised me that all the listings would be available till the beginning of 2023.

maybe somebody knows some good new places where to sell? VC is useless, Tradesy is over, ebay is full of scammers, only poshmark still works for me:sad:
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the new thing is Whatnot and live shows on Youtube (and Posh)- but I'm not interested in that and I don't think live shows work for luxury. Live shows are more trendy, cheap items, impulse buys etc. I was told some Coach and Kate Spade bags work for live shows - but only the commodity bags (less than about $75).
 
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